Roll Land System: Release That Rock - Chapter 1

“Huh? Where am I?” Wong Mingyu awoke groggily and wiped his eyes. That is until he realized that he had no arms nor eyes. “Wait… why can’t I see anything? Where are my arms?”

Suddenly, he heard a loud “Bzzzrrrt!” in his head. A mechanical voice followed, “Roll-land System Activated! User: Rocky. Mission: Roll across the land! Roll-land System provides basic assistance and basic information about this world. Good luck, User: Rocky.”

Wong Mingyu thought, ‘That’s it? So my name is Rocky? I have a system in this world? I wonder… Hey, system? Could you please tell me where I am?’

He heard the “Bzzzrrrt!” sound in his head again and the system said, “User: Rocky is currently located at Border Town, currently under the jurisdiction of Roland Wimbledon.”

Wong Mingyu aka ‘Rocky’ sighed and thought, “It would be great if I could see or at least have arms and legs. How am I supposed to move when I don’t have limbs?”

Rocky was continuing his thoughts when suddenly he ‘felt’ like he started to move. “How am I moving?”

Roll-land system responded by saying, “You have currently been picked up by a noble. Now, you are about to be thrown towards a witch named ‘Anna’.”

Rocky thought, “Wait, what? No, no, no, no, nooooo-!” Rocky felt a rushing sensation as if he were launched out of a cannon before he collided against a firm wall. “What happened?”

In its regular monotone voice, Roll-land system replied, “User: Rocky has been thrown and hit the leg of ‘Anna’. User: Rocky traveled a distance of 14 meters. Reward: Vision and Hearing, one lottery chance, and dust-level stone magic.”

Rocky thought, “At least you have some semblance of kindness. Now I don’t have to be blind for the rest of eternity and I can at least do something now.”

Gradually, Rocky saw everything brighten, and it wasn’t the pitch black that he saw before. Now, he slowly saw a blurry skinny figure about to be executed and he heard someone say, “I’m tired. The judgment shall be postponed to another day. The court is dismissed!”

Rocky thought, “No, this cannot happen! Am I supposed to suffer in the cold throughout the night until they bring her back before someone might throw me again? Roll-land system, how does dust-level stone magic work?”

Suddenly, he saw a rapid series of images that seared into his mind that completely taught him about dust-level stone magic. In optimistic terms, it was completely useless. In modest terms, dust-level magic is worse than having no magic at all!

Dust-level magic forces the caster to move particles of dust with mana gathered from the environment. If the user doesn’t release said mana, they die from storing too much. If they do release the magic, they are also responsible for the particles of dust as well and those particles of dust will eventually gather magic as well, so on and so forth.

Rocky thought, “Right! The lottery chance! Roll-land System, open the lottery.” Rocky saw in his mind a roulette filled with sparkly items that seemed extremely rare and powerful. “Yes! This is it! Roll!” Rocky’s willed the lottery’s lever to pull and he saw it spin and flash. Finally, the system landed on a bright red gemstone that seemed to scream of blood.

The Roll-land system said, “Lottery Rewarded: Miasma Crystal. This crystal is capable of creating demons that will serve the owner of this crystal.”

Rocky thought, “Alright! I can just create a small demon or something that can quickly carry me around everywhere!”

While he was undergoing celebrations in his mind, he was interrupted by the Roll-land system which said, “User: Rocky has been awarded (0.00000001%) Miasma Crystals.”

Rocky thought, “Wha-?” He imagined the Roll-land system sneering and laughing at him while he was celebrating and shivered in anger.

The Roll-land system continued its explanation, “Upon completion of gathering a complete Miasma Crystal, user can utilize its entire function.”

Rocky asked, “So what could I do with this infintismally small fraction of it that I have now? Eat it?”

The Roll-land system bleakly interrupted his thoughts by saying, “User: Rocky posseses no means of consumption. Would User: Rocky like to use stored miasma in the crystal to create a level 0.01 demon?”

Rocky laughed, “Yes, yes! What can I create?”

The Roll-land system stated in its usual monotone voice, “Anything on the same level or weaker than an ant.”